Vegetable-cutter



' G. J.'NEVEIL.

' VegetabIe'Cutter';

Patented" 0st. 14. 1840 UNITED STATES PATENT GEO. J. NEVEIL, OF RISING SUN, PENNSYLVANIA.

VEGETABLE-CUTTER.

Specification; of Letters Patent No. 1,825, dated October 14, 1840.

To all whom ii'mag concern Be it known that I, GEORGE Ja Nnvnrm'of the Rising Sun village in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful machine for cutting beets or any other roots which are of a nutritious nature and which when out may be used a-sf'ood for cattle or which. may be applied to any purpose whatsoever wherein it may be found useful, and from the nature and character of this myinvention I dohereby denominate it a vegetablecutter; and I do. hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of my machine, reference being had to the an nexed drawings of the same making part of this specification.

Figure l is a perspective and detached. view of that portion of the machine which is brought in. immediate contact with the.

roots and by means of which they are cut and discharged; and which resembles in form a hollow truncated cone. I Fig. 2 1s a perspective view. Fig. 3 is a vertical sec at the same angle and the lower edges rest tion through the center of the machine Fig. 4, plan of the'ri-ng; Fig. 5, plan of the small head.

Similar letters. refer to similar parts in the several figures.

I shall now proceed to describe the con.- struction and operation of this machine.

a, a, a, a, arefiouruprights which are firmly fastened to the horizontal beams b, b,-they are also fastened to the cross pieces or girts 0, c, which in their turn are connected with another cross piece cl and its corresponding piece which connect with the pieces 0 c the end a of which may be seen as extended through and which together with the tenon 41 on the end of cl, serves to support the parallel piece e. The pieces 7, f, are firmly attached to the uprights a, a, a, a, in which position they form two sides of the hopper. These two pieces f, f, are plain rectangular boards placed in a vertical po sition against the inside of the four posts against which they are firmly secured. The two ends of the hopper are represented by g, and its corresponding piece. These are inclined at an angle sufficient to make their lower extremities conform to the exterior surface of the revolving cutter or of that portion of the machine represented by Fig. 1 which also gives a desirable form to the hopper.

pose I p, p, which are fastened to the rings g, g, by,

board shod with an iron plate at the end:

next the cutter and which works on the upper surface of the inclined end g, anol by means of which slide or regulator t, (when it is raised or depressed) the roots are out into. large or small pieces as may be most de sirable. WVhen the aforesaid slide or gage board marked Z in Fig. 3) is. raised the cutting willbe coarse and when it is brought nearer to the cutters the cutting will be fine.

j represents a. cast iron cogged wheel; it is attached to a short axle Z, turning in boxes let into the horizontal side pieces a and e. l

is is a cast iron pinion which is fixed on the axle m of the truncated cone and by means of which pinion rotation is. given to the cone n or that part of the machine as shown by Fig. l.

The two ends of the hopper are inclined upon the upper edges of two vertical cross pieces which rest upon the cross girts. One

side of the hopper is vertical scalloped on the lower edge to admit the smaller end of the cone. .an. inclined board which is scalloped in the ,lower edge to admit the larger end of the cone to turn therein.

Against the opposite side is fitted F ig. 1, which isv the conical cutter, is comof four segments of cast iron 7), 7),

means of iron rods 1", r, 1". s s are knives which are firmly attached to the rings 9 q in an angular position. a, a, u, u are apertures through which the roots pass when out.

The revolving cutter for cutting the vegetables which is the principal part of my invention is constructed in the following manner. It resembles as before stated a hollow truncated cone and is composed of four pieces p.-each piece being the segment ofahollow truncated cone and all four pieces or segments being held' in theilr proper places at a suitable distance apart to admit the knives and give free passage to the cut'particles by two grooved ringsor one ring with a circular groove G in its side next the ends of the se merits, and a circular head or plate Q, with a similar groove G in it, and the ends of said segments after pass through.

the knives are properly set being placed in the aforesaid c1rcu1ar grooves, and held therein by means of screw rods 1", extending from" one ring to the other, at the backs knives being let into grooves L made in the ring, and head across the circular grooves in the direction that it is intended the knives should be placed. The knives 8, resemble plane irons and after they are inserted in the spaces between the segments the remainder of each space must be sufficient to allow the cut particles of the vegetables to pass through said openings into the interior of said hollow truncated cone, from whence they are discharged at the larger end, at the side of the machine. A bale or bar in, extends across the diameter of the large ring for the axle m to At the small end the axle m projects from the circular plate Q which closessaid end i The operation of the machine is as follows: The sliding gage t being properly set, the vegetables or roots are placed in the hopper H, the hollow truncated cone I with its cutters is turned by hand, by means of the crank V, and cogged gearing I K. The knives necessarily come in contact with the vegetables, and cut them up against the lower side of the gage t, which is faced with a metallic plate to prevent wearing the cut particles pass to the inside of the hollow truncated cone from whence by its conical form they are discharged at the side of the machine. The uncut vegetables continueto descend over the surfaces of the inclinedends and side of the hoppers to the cutters where they undergo the same which is done by unscrewing the nuts-then adjusting the segments and screwing up the nuts again. When the segments are moved toward the cuttingedges of the cutters the spaces between them will be reduced which will cause the machine to cut the substances into small particles-the cut particles having to pass through these spaces into the interior of the truncated cone and at the same time the spaces next the back of the knives are enlarged which, however, do not aifect the operation of the machine as the cut particles do not pass through these last mentioned spaces.

The sliding gage t is to be set to the knives and screwed fast.

I do not claim a hollow truncated cone or inclined hopper, sliding gage, or frame, but

What I do claim as my invention and which I desire to secure by Letters Patent consists in- The before described mode ofconstructing the hollow truncated cone of cutters for cutting vegetables, roots, &c.namely, by means of the open and solid head grooved on the faces toward each other to admit the ends of the segments and knives and held together by rods and screws arranged in such manner that they can be loosened at pleasure for the purpose of setting the segments nearer to or farther, from the cutting edges of the knives for the purpose of cutting coarser or finer and again tightened to hold them securely in the position in which they are set-all as herein set forth.

GEORGE J. NEVEIL. Witnesses WM. P. ELLIOT, WM. J. MAHER. 

